Shola Ama hopes for dream collaboration with Pharrell Williams as she teases 25th anniversary tour-Kim Novak-Entertainment – Metro

Shola Ama is celebrating 25 years in music (Picture: Getty Images)

Shola Ama has shared her plans for a tour next year to celebrate 25 years in the music industry after first topping the charts as a teen. 

The singer, now 43, made her debut in 1997 at just 18 years old with her breakout hit You Might Need Somebody, which peaked at number four on the UK charts.  

She told Metro.co.uk: ‘I want to go on tour in the new year as an anniversary mini tour, so like a UK and European tour, live band tour and then I’ve got new music coming as well.’

Reminiscing on the past two and a half decades, Shola revealed that it was her first Brit award that stands out as the most spectacular moment for her. 

She explained: ‘Oh my gosh there’s so many amazing moments but probably winning best British female at the Brit Awards in 1998. 

‘That one stands out because I really didn’t think I was going to get that award, I thought I might get best newcomer because I was so new – my album came out in September 1997 and the awards were the next February. 

Shola is going on tour next year and is cooking up new music (Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

‘For some reason I just thought best British female seemed like you had to have been around for a really long time to win that, or at least a year.’

Shola, who is performing at the SoulTown festival this weekend, added: ‘There’s so many amazing moments in 25 years, there’s so many things that have happened but that one obviously stands out as the big one.’

When asked which artist she’s yet to work with that would be on her dream collaboration list, Shola revealed: ‘Pharrell [Williams] just because he is so fine! He’s just so fine – that man has got better and better with age.

‘No but I’d love to actually work with Pharrell or Dr Dre. Pharrell, to me, is so cool and he’s so incredible at what he does because he is a little bit left of centre and it just makes his sound so unique and very specific to him, so he is definitely my dream person to work with.’

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